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| Sunday, October 12th, 2008 | |
| 3:30 am | Opus Where will Opus' final paradise be? |
| 4:15 am | I Like to Watch: He's got Bette Davis eyes! CBS' "Eleventh Hour," NBC's "My Own Worst Enemy" and ABC Are you in the mood to watch leading men with deep, penetrating eyes thrown into extraordinary circumstances? Do you want to see these men solving mysteries, nabbing criminals or engaging in international espionage, even as the planet crumbles under their feet? If so, stay tuned for a brand new slew of suspense-thrillers coming to a television near you. Sadly, though, most of us are too distracted by the fact that the world is falling to pieces each day in a suspense-thriller of our own design. Where are our saviors with the expressive eyes, the ones who might lead us, Jesus-like, through this quagmire? Presumably they all moved to Hollywood to appear on TV dramas, leaving us with one honorable but absent-minded professor who won’t make any claims that he’s a miracle worker, and one angry old turtle who brags that he can turn water into wine, flanked by a hapless backcountry sidekick pulled straight from the set of the latest quirky Alaskan dramedy. At least the soulful-looking men on our television screens are angry and panicked and filled with dismay at the crumbling state of things. At least we can relate to their confusion and fear and bewilderment. At least, through them, we can pretend that solving crimes and blowing Russian thugs to smithereens is an option. At least there's a soothing moral at the end, one to calm your nerves after you’ve given your last dime to the professorial non-miracle worker in the hopes that, despite his humble claims, he can stop the whole world from imploding. ... |
| Saturday, October 11th, 2008 | |
| 5:42 am | Sarah Palin: The view from Alaska Amid "Troopergate" and other government scandals, including killing wolf pups, an Alaskan writer explains why the Palin phenomenon rings hollow in his home state. |
| 4:18 am | Don't call it mumblecore Ultra-indie American film grows up in a hurry with Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's erotic, wrenching relationship drama "Nights and Weekends." |
| 1:00 pm | Critics' Picks What you need to see, read, do this week: Indie rock for Barack, a time capsule of late-'80s bohemia, a peek at other people's diaries. |
| Friday, October 10th, 2008 | |
| 2:00 pm | NFL Week 6: Playoff picks Baseball playoffs, that is. In other words: They're still playing football? And: What? Hockey? |
| 11:15 am | The federal government should go on a spending spree Nothing expresses McCain's ignorance of basic economics like his call to freeze expenditures. Only massive government investment can help us now. |
| 12:10 pm | ALCS: Why not the Rays? The Red Sox have their hands full with Tampa Bay, whose 31-win improvement was no fluke. |
| 7:58 am | Salon Radio: ACLU's Jonathan Hafetz on Guantanamo cases Why is the Bush administration continuing to imprison 17 detainees in Guantánamo who it acknowledges are innocent? And what is the latest on the president's power to imprison U.S. citizens as "enemy combatants"? |
| 4:00 am | Early MVP favorite: Luck Some key plays in the Phillies' Game 1 win over the Dodgers showed what a huge role chance plays in a short series. |
| 3:45 am | "Happy-Go-Lucky" Sally Hawkins gives the finest performance of the year in Mike Leigh's intimate masterpiece. |
| 3:20 am | "Body of Lies" Russell and Leo team up in this overly intricate indictment of the war on terror. |
| 3:18 am | Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. "Her door was open," says Chryson -- and still is. |
| 3:33 am | Why we're losing in Afghanistan Corrupt government and the U.S.'s mismanaged "surge" strategy have led to the Taliban's powerful resurgence in Afghanistan. |
| 3:12 am | I believe in UFOs. Am I crazy? My daughter saw one and I looked into it, and I found there's something to it! |
| 3:43 am | "Greatest film ever" or a cream cake? Mocked on initial release and long unavailable, Max Ophüls' wide-screen spectacle "Lola Montès" returns in a lustrous restoration. So what's the big deal? |
| 3:35 am | "The Wrestler" Mickey Rourke gives a knockout performance as a nearly washed-up wrestling star. |
| 2:03 am | WayLay Jill wonders if her trip to rescue Steve has been for nothing. |
| Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | |
| 1:20 pm | NLCS preview: Dodgers vs. Phillies Manny Ramirez leads a whole new L.A. against scorching Philadelphia in a series that looks remarkably even. |
| 4:00 am | The hot A-11 offense's female cousin Piedmont High's all-eligible scheme is the talk of football, but a coach in a women's pro league says he's been running it for three years. |